José Saramago - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1998
photo José Saramago

José Saramago

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1998
who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality
Citizenship
Portugal Portugal
Languages
Portuguese
date of birth
11/16/1922
place of birth
Golegã, Azinhaga
date of death
6/18/2010
place of death
Lanzarote, Tías
Lived
87 years

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notable work
  • Blindness
  • Cain
  • Seeing
  • The Elephant's Journey
  • Death with Interruptions
  • The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
occupation
  • translator
  • playwright
  • dramaturge
  • journalist
  • chronicler
  • revolutionary
  • novelist
  • literary critic
  • essayist
  • diarist
  • poet
  • writer
  • screenwriter
work location
  • Lisbon
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